almost

I almost wondered that Mr. Soames did not, after this monosyllable, pass along. 🔊

But this profession he made in an almost cursory tone. 🔊

I don't think it lived long enough to justify its name; but at that time there it still was, in Greek Street, a few doors from Soho Square, and almost opposite to that house where, in the first years of the century, a little girl, and with her a boy named De Quincey, made nightly encampment in darkness and hunger among dust and rats and old legal parchments. 🔊

That will give you almost five hours. 🔊

Almost I wished I had gone with Soames, not, indeed, to stay in the reading-room, but to sally forth for a brisk sight-seeing walk around a new London. 🔊

Almost an hour to spare. 🔊

Butwell, one is so used to nodding and smiling in the street to anybody whom one knows that the action becomes almost independent of oneself; 🔊

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